Back in early March, Tweedledee broke her toe in an ill-conceived wall kicking incident that left her hobbling for a couple of weeks. (It’s all better now, thank you for asking. In a stroke of good timing, the flip-flop season was not affected.)

In that post, I introduced you to Ken’s Rule #15–Trust Yet Verify, (along with the Tweedledee Corollary, “When verifying, make sure it doesn’t hurt.)

Ken has published The Oft-Quoted List of Rules because someone at work requested that he once and for all document his list. You can read the complete list here. He has always had his own particular list of rules to live by, but there are a couple of things to know about this list.

The idea for numbering the rules came from NCIS.

Unlike Leroy Jethro Gibbs, Ken does not smack people on the back of the head when the rules are…